Tosa Maidan

Tosa Maidan
Meadow
The Tosamaidan Meadows
Pirpanchal Guarding Tosamaidan
Nickname: 
Bahak
Tosa Maidan
Location in Jammu & Kashmir, India
Tosa Maidan
Tosa Maidan (India)
Coordinates: 33°55′4″N 74°29′57″E / 33.91778°N 74.49917°E / 33.91778; 74.49917
Country India
Union Territory Jammu & Kashmir
DivisionKashmir
DistrictBudgam
TehsilKhag
Languages
  OfficialKashmiri, Urdu, Hindi, Dogri, English
Time zoneUTC+5:30 (IST)
PIN
193411

Tosa Maidan (or Toshamaidan) is a tourist destination and a hill station in the Khag area of the Budgam district in the Kashmir Valley of the Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir. The name also marks the historic Tosa Maidan route into the Kashmir Valley from the Poonch Valley. In fact, the original name of Tosa Maidan appears to have been "Tosa Marg". Mahmud of Ghazni and the Sikh monarch Ranjit Singh attempted to invade the Kashmir Valley via this route following the Battle of Shopian